bypass warning when uploading a file

[smithjd]

When using trackdown for a distill site that has many pages, there are situations (more frequent than I would like) where a more than dozen pages need to be updated. If I've checked that there have been no updates since the previous trackdown update, it would be nice to be able just upload all of them without having the verify that, "yes, I do want to overwrite the Google Doc contents." I'm wondering about a "don't ask" parameter.

And thanks for a wonderful package! It's extremely useful.

[ClaudioZandonella]

Hi @smithjd,

Great idea! We introduced the force argument to allow users to skip confirm checks about overwriting documents.

There are two main cases in which users' input is requested:

• In update_file() to check whether the user really wants to replace the file in Google Drive
• In download_file() to check whether the user really wants to download a file from Google Drive

By specifying force = TRUE, now it is possible to skip these checks.

However, there are two more cases in which users' input is requested:

• In upload_output() (an internal function)to check whether user wants to transform HTML output to PDF output. By specifying force = TRUE, the HTML output is automatically uploaded without asking the user whether to transform it to PDF.
• In get_path_dribble() (an internal function) to check whether the user wants to create a folder in Google Drive if the specified folder is not available. In this case, by specifying force = TRUE, the user is still required to confirm. This is because most of the time if the folder is not found in GoogleDrive is due to some typo in the directory path.

Currently, the new trackdown version (v1.2.0) is available only on Github. You can install it by

remotes::install_github("ClaudioZandonella/trackdown")

We are really happy you find the package useful ❤️ and thank you for your suggestion👍!